GLEANINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6178, 9 April 1907, Page 3

GLEANINGS

A Tadmoro (Nelson) farmer, Mr William Christian, has purchased eleven Romr.oy rams from the flocks of Messrs Pinrco (Colyton) and Levelt (Kiwitea). The Sounds Dairy Company lias an agreement with its suppliers to furnish milk from a certain number of cows. One supplier failed to comply with this requirement, and was taken to Court ovei the matter. lie was fined tho full amount claimed, £3 os and £1 2s costs. Tho agents of tho L.K.G. milkingmachine, Messrs J. 15. MacKwan and Co., state that thev have as many orders now for machines to bo installed next season as were sold during tho whole of last season, and that the installations to bo put in next soring will probably bo four times a? many as wore set up last year. Tho Masterton District Hig' School pupils, says a Press Associa on telegram, have achieved tho r narkablo result on their agriculture plots of 27 tons 2 cwts of potatoes to one acre from cwt of seed and 4 ewt of manure, and this on poor soil. Tho variety was Factor. Breeze's Prolific, planted on November 27th with C cwt of manure, produced at the rate of 10 tons 12 cwt to tho acre for ninetyeight days’ growth. Now that tho milking-machine is an accomplished fact, we are continually hearing of now machines, mostly ideas which have been long since discarded in one form or another. Only the other day tho “Scientific American” published a description of what it refers to as a new form of' mechanical milker, but which is, in reality, an apparatus on exactly tho same principle, a roller working against the teats with a downward movement, as one exhibited in this country about sixteen years ago It was introduced by Mr Newman Anderson, tho first manager of tho Central Dairy Company, of Christchurch. At the Southland Ram and Ewe Fair at Invercargill last Thursday the most favoured breed was Border Leicester. But even competition for these wis not keen. The best price was 15£gns for a two-shear ram bred by It. Grieve and purchased by Mrs P. Thomson; a throe-year ram bred by H. Caisucll realised lljgns. Other rams made from ogns to Signs. Flock Border rams from Signs to 7gns. There was a short yarding of flock Romneys, »nd good prices were obtained. Tho best price was Signs. Others made from 33gns to Sgns. There were no Lincolns forward, and English Leicester and Shropshircs met with a very poor demand-